The Kiss of Death

Chapter 1- And so we meet L

I sigh as I walk into my apartment that I lived alone in after work. "I'm home!" I say to the picture of my family and give a small sigh when I look at it. My mother and father both had happy smiles as they had an arm around my twin brother and myself. Our older sister was standing between us her head resting on both our shoulders. "Welcome home." I mumble back to myself in the best impersonation of my older twin brother. I chuckle before walking over to the fridge to see what I had in there only to see it empty. "Great no food again. Your Seventeen years old Alex what are you thinking?" I say to myself as I close the fridge door and walk back to the front door. I was just about to open it when my cell phone rings. 'Private Number' The screen reads and I look it over uneasily. If the cops I worked with needed me then they would just use their cell phones or even their house phones to get a hold of me. I was always weary of private numbers. Finally deciding to take a chance I flip open the phone before putting it to my ear. "Hello?" I ask and wait for an answer. "Ahh the boy detective does answer the phone." The computerized voice on the other end says and I hold back my chuckle. See I was a girl and seeing as how both my twin and I had male names everyone thinks I am a boy which works out well for me.

"What do you want?" I ask as I bite my bottom lip hoping that this wasn't some killer calling me from jail. "Have you heard of L?" The voice asks and I give a small sigh. "I do what of him?" I say as I look at my nails getting tired of this whole conversation. "Well boy detective how would you like to work with L on a case in Japan?" The voice asks me and I scoff lightly. I had taken Japanese in high school as well as in collage seeing as how I along with my brother had graduated high school at the age of fourteen, not long after that was the car accident that killed my whole family but me. "Is this about that Kira guy? Look I have to worry about his killing spree here in Washington so I really don't want to add to that." I say getting really annoyed and I was about to hang up when the computer voice gives a laugh making me mad, my checks turn bright red and I know my grey-blue eyes looked like ice. "Kira is in Japan and all his killings are now only in Japan. L would love to have your help in this case given your age and it will pay good if you take the job." The voice says and I frown a little. I didn't take jobs for the money, I had enough of that to live on for a while now but I wouldn't mind a new puzzle. The case I was working on now came up to all dead ends leaving us all sitting there scratching our heads. "Fine, I will get the first flight out tomorrow. I will arrive at the police station where I will meet with L's leas-ion. If he is looking for me my name is Max Miller." I say and the voice laughs again. "Alright Mr. Miller L looks forward to working with you." The voice says and I sigh before hanging up.

If I was going to head to Japan I needed to go get things. I was lucky that the police gave me an alias when I started working for them three years ago Maximum was my brother's name and Miller was just a last name that they pulled out of no where. My real name is Alexander Jade Johnson. Max and I both had the same middle name so when one messed up and had their full name called it wasn't long before the other one did. I was five foot ten, tall for a girl I know but my brother and I were going to be matching in almost everything but gender; hello I was a girl I had boobs they may not be the biggest but they are still there. Max and I both had necklaces around out necks that matched, it was a small jade dragon that mom had gotten on one of the trips she and dad took to China on our tenth birthday. Crystal our older sister had looked after us seeing as how at the time she was almost fourteen. Our grandma had helped her look after us and take us to school as well as feeding us. I shake my head to clear my head to pack and give a sigh as I leave my apartment to get a new suitcase as well as cloths. Most of my girly cloths wouldn't work if they all thought I was a man in Japan.

"Alex what are you doing out here?" Officer Billings says. He was one of the few officers who had worked on my first case with me and had helped make my fake name and such. "Shopping. I got a call to work with L in Japan on the Kira case." I say and he frowns a little. Billings was a thirty-nine year old with wavy black hair and it had small splashes of gray in it. His light green eyes made him look younger than he was and he looked like he was still in his early twenties. "Want some help? I'll get us some pizza as well." He offers and not much later his daughter and son run over. " Hey Alex long time no see." Brad says as he gives me a hi five. I smirk at him and soon after that the three Billings help me shop and Brad was really helpful in getting some boy cloths. My platinum blond hair was cut short and the tips of it were colored a midnight blue matching my mood from the last case. The Billings end up spending the night at my place and Brad offered to house sit for me and I was grateful for him to offer that. "Ohhh daddy can I take Alex to the airport by myself? Please it's the last chance for her to get in some girl time." Maria begs her father and he gives a small sigh. "Fine but Alex promise me that you will call and text us all to let us know your alright. I told Thomson, Potter and  Summers about this last night. They said to text them as well." Billings says as he helps Maria and I take my three bags down as well as my carry on. "I will text all four of you the moment I land. Picky promise. You, Thomson, Potter and Summers are the only family I have left." I say before handing over my apartment keys to Brad who gave me a smile.